Meet Her in the Garden of Unearthly Delights
byJulie Armbruster is grateful for her freed-up time in 2020. Never mind the pandemic — her world has always been weird. The illustrator’s drawings,…
Printmaking
Librarians Everywhere Look Her Up
byKaren Hardy is a fine artist who works with the eye of a mad scientist. “When paper is made, it starts with pulp floating…
How Beautiful is the Little Dog That Inspires a Massive Mural?
byYou’ve seen her before, the giant version, in a cosmic blue mural on the side of Cotton Mill Studios: Qué Linda! Open the door…
He’s Not Scared of Clowns, and that Has Made All the Difference
byLogan Guarglia is a painter, printmaker, freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer — “I have a hard time sticking to one medium,” he says….
How to Outfox the Pressures of Art Making
bySome of Andy Farkas’ work is inspired by stories he’s written or told to his daughters. But despite their folkloric quality, his prints…
The Gearhead Who Likes Printmaking Equipment Accelerates his Art
byHe became interested in the machinery before the actual artwork that it made — and that’s how Dave Ladendorf, a former tech manager,…
Imagine a Copy Machine so Crummy it Blows Up into a Beautiful Business
byMica Mead and Colin Sutherland launched Woolly Press in 2013, after discovering the unique aesthetic potential of a circa-1986 printer called the Risograph. The…
The Idea of Limited Editions Opened an Unlimited Career
byBill Hall wasn’t attracted to printmaking because of its long history or many iterations. Instead, he liked its reassuring accessibility. “I was too intimidated…
Print is Far From Dead — Just Ask Asheville BookWorks (and Steamroller Operators)
byIt’s safe to say that Laurie Corral is the unofficial matriarch of Western North Carolina’s book-arts and print scene. In 2004, she founded Asheville…
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Deckle-Edge Upscale Stationery
byT. S. Eliot said that “immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” In other words, transforming known material is more sophisticated than attempting an inferior…